Clef, I beg of you. Add a fifth essay with the professor answering questions. It could be a cooperative page or not, I don't care, just… just add it. Please. :_D

Liked. I loved how you tied Pitches to rituals, by the way. I was thinking about murders and carvings and the like, but I should have thought about sex too… also, I wonder if Sharp and Flat can be tied to sex with protection, or in vitro fertilization.

This is still quite good, but I found it a little harder to follow in places.

In particular I found the Speckmann Rebound a bit… unclear. Same with the Everhart Resonator, etc. It may have been intentional to leave this a bit ambiguous to writers could do basically whatever they wanted with them, but I'd have like a few more details and a bit more clarity. Had to read this several times before feeling I mostly understood.

The paragraph starting with "In practice, of course, most modern thaumaturges prefer to use less dramatic Sources for their workings" is especially confusing, because it starts off with discussing Sources, naturally goes to discussing rebound control, then immediately diverts from rebound control back to Sources. (Also, why not explain more on rebound control?)

Also the ending: I'm left wondering why the GOC would've bothered killing thirty people or ordering up a mass orgy for an apparently needless transportation ritual. And if they didn't, and they just used a supermassive Everhart Resonator for a few weeks, then why did the lecturer imply otherwise?

The Everhart Resonator is the GOC's magical macguffin for doing magic powered by electricity.

A Speckmann's Rebound, on the other hand, I can explain. It's basically the whole "Equivalent Exchange" "Conservation of Magic" type thing. The idea behind Backlash is that if you fuck up a spell, you get unintended consequences: you try to bring someone back to life and kill someone else. You try to murder someone and instead end up bringing a field of flowers to life. Evil begets good, good begets evil.

So Speckmann's Rebound basically says: okay, I'm going to deliberately fuck up this spell, get a bunch of Backlash, then redirect that Backlash into a new spell.